USA

2013

What is the humanitarian function of journalism in wartime? How does international humanitarian law protect journalists? Why is impunity the most important challenge facing journalists working in conflict zones?

James
Foley, a U.S. freelance journalist, was abducted
in Syria in November. His colleague and friend Nicole Tung, a freelance
photographer, spoke to CPJ about
her experience working and traveling with Foley. A petition appealing for
Foley's release can be signed here.

January 11, 2013 1:44 PM ET

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I remember sitting with a Yahoo employee in 2009, talking
about the lack of protective encryption on Yahoo's Web mail accounts. Like
many, the employee had been caught up in the news of how Iranians were using the Internet to document and
protest the presidential elections in that country, and had grown worried about
the possibility of governments intercepting Yahoo customer's emails without due
process. As an immigrant from a repressive regime, he told me, he was aware of how
much danger this posed. He said he was going to raise the topic internally.

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New
York, January 7, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns continued
harassment and threats against staff of The
Journal News after the New York state-based daily published an interactive map
that identified local gun permit holders. CPJ calls on authorities to
investigate the matter thoroughly and take all appropriate law enforcement
action.